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Quick and easy question about Acronis True Image

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MangoTBG

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I have backed up my laptop HDD. I want to restore it onto a larger 3.5 hdd in a desktop. That hard drive, however, is 160GB while the laptop HDD is 100GB. What will happen with the extra space on the 160GB hdd? What if I have multiple partitions on that 100GB image?

Is there anway to allocate that extra space to certain partitions, how I see fit?
 
You can resize the partition you are restoring to be bigger than it originally was if you want. You can also leave the extra space unpartitioned and then create more partitions later in Windows (through the Disk Management console).
 
You can resize the partition you are restoring to be bigger than it originally was if you want. You can also leave the extra space unpartitioned and then create more partitions later in Windows (through the Disk Management console).
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Yep, even if your old disk is less than the new one, when restoring drive you will be able to choose whether to restore drive "As is" or to make proportional expanding of it according to new disk size.
 
Kinda need more info about how the laptop was setup, did it have partitions ?

PS: Remember to repair the windows install otherwise you won't be able to boot the desktop since the laptop and desktop are different require different settings and drivers.

 
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